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Street vendors reject proposal of Identification through Biometric Aadhaar number & National Population Register

Street vendors reject proposal of Identification
through Biometric Aadhaar number & National Population Register (NPR)

Call
for rejection of National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), Aadhaar, NPR and
National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID)

Kolkata/New Delhi: On the concluding day of the 3
day workshop on Impact of Globalization and International Financial
Institutions (IFIs) on Hawkers and various sectors, the leaders of street
vendors from across the country expressed their strong disapproval of the biometric
identification of street vendors through initiatives like Aadhaar/Unique
Identification (UID) Number and National Population Register (NPR).
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Urban Development has been misled by some
NGO owners into expressing support for anti-citizen and ant-vendor biometric
identification which has been deemed illegal, unethical and contemptuous of
Parliament by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance in its report to
the Parliament on December 11, 2011.

The participants at the workshop disapproved of NGO
owners who support biometric identification through initiatives like
Aadhaar/Unique Identification (UID) Number and NPR. The following Public Statement
was endorsed and issued in Kolkata on April 5, 2013:

Public Statement

Why all Freedom
Loving Citizens should oppose National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), UID/
Aadhaar, National Population Register (NPR) and National Intelligence Grid
(NATGRID)?

1. It is a threat
to privacy, civil liberties, federalism, national security, sovereignty,
decentralization and constitution

2. It facilitates
emergence of a Surveillance State based on Database, Global Information
Architecture for Convergence, Property based Democracy to advances corporate
fascism by ‘commercial czars’ and ‘private territorial armies’

3. It is fraught
with dangers of genocide and communal crisis through tracking and profiling
akin to misuse of census data in Germany in 1930s

4. It is guided by
undemocratic international financial institutions and defence policies of other
nuclear weapon holding countries

5. The collection
of biometric data is a violation of fundamental rights as it turns citizens
into subjects and treats them worse than prisoners

6. It is anti-poor
and anti-citizen as it dismantles existing social service entitlements and is a
tool for exclusion

7. It promotes
outsourcing of governmental functions

8. There is an
imminent danger from surveillance and identification technology
companies – which are beyond national and international legal control-
indiscriminately collecting biometric data like fingerprints, iris scan, voice
print, DNA etc

9. It compromises
citizens’ rights of present and future generations

10. It is an
unnecessary and wasteful project for citizens as it transfers public money to
private parties

11. It is without
democratic, parliamentary, legal and constitutional sanction

They rejected the recommendation “The Aadhar card may be linked towards identification of street vendors” as
dehumanizing. The Parliamentary
Standing Committee on Urban Development has failed in its report to fathom the
grave genocidal ramifications in its submitted to the Parliament on March 13,
2013.

The report was the
Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill,
2012 was introduced in Lok Sabha on September 6, 2012 was referred to this
Committee on 10th September, 2012. It
failed to recognize the illegality of collection of biometric data.

Gopal Krishna of Citizens Form for Civil Liberties (CFCL) addressed
the workshop on the ramifications of biometric profiling being pursued by Home
Ministry and the Planning Commission. He underlined that it is being undertaken
at the behest of World Bank’s eTransform Initiative and North Atlantic Treaty
Organisation (NATO) to secure safe havens for commercial czars and private
territorial armies through convergence of private sector, public sector and
citizens sector. He expressed dismay at the ignorance of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Urban
Development which does not know the difference between a 12 digit biometric identifier
located in Centralized Identity Data Registry (CIDR) and NPR and pre-existing
at least 15 identity proofs which give legitimacy to the Parliament and the
governments.

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